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Evening Cultural Performances

We are extremely excited about the the talented artists and cultural performers that will be on stage and taking you on a journey each evening at ITC. Evening cultural events will be held in the Cooperage, an intimate performance venue designed to build community and hold space for dialogue, celebration, inquiry, play, and dance.

A complex understanding ... allows us to join together, in an indissoluble manner, the "I" with the "we", and both of these with the "they" and the "it."

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~ Edgar Morin, French philosopher and sociologist

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If ordinary people don't perceive that our grand ideas are working in their lives then they can't develop the higher level of consciousness ... that the American philosopher Ken Wilber wrote a whole book about called A Theory of Everything - he says the problem is the world needs to be more integrated but it requires a consciousness...[that has] an ability to see beyond the differences among us.

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~ Bill Clinton, speaking at Davos

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Although earlier deterministic, mechanistic, and dualistic characterizations have been rejected, there remains a great challenge to contemporary researchers: they must identify and employ an integrated framework, which must accommodate spatially and temporally specific natural and social scientific information and include evidence of changing values, perceptions, and awareness.

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~ Carole Crumley, Advances in Historical Ecology

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The rich countries' problem is rigidity and the poor countries' problem is capacity. Then we all share a problem that was best articulated by the philosopher Ken Wilber. He's got this theory that there are basically 10 levels of consciousness—the way we view ourselves, the way we view others—and that it's almost impossible for people to keep up with what circumstances require.

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~ Bill Clinton, Newsweek Magazine Dec 20th, 2009

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[In the 21st century], there will be an urgent need for scholars who go beyond the isolated facts; who make connections across the disciplines; and who begin to discover a more coherent view of knowledge and a more integrated, more authentic view of life.

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~ Ernest Boyer, 1928 – 1995

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[Integral Knowledge] is the organic synthesis of theology, philosophy, and experimental science, and only this synthesis may contain in itself the integral truth of knowledge: outside of it science, philosophy, and theology are only separate parts or aspects, detached organs of knowledge, and thus they cannot in any way be adequate for integral truth itself.

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~ Vladimir Solovyov, The Principles of Integral Knowledge (1877)

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To understand the ... history of the Earth it is necessary to integrate the different perspectives, theories, tools, and knowledge of multiple disciplines across the full spectrum of social and natural sciences and the humanities.

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~ Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, and Will Steffen, Sustainability or Collapse: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth

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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

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~ Buckminster Fuller, 1895 – 1983

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As long as we do not bring metapraxis more into the foreground of our analyses, we cannot fully bridge that separation between theory and practice.

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~ Thomas Kasulis, professor of comparative religion

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An integrated sociological paradigm must deal with macroscopic objective entities like bureaucracy, macro-subjective structures like culture, micro-objective phenomena like patterns of interaction, and micro-subjective facts like the process of reality construction.

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~ George Ritzer, Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (1981)

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A new meta-field -- correlating the arts, humanities, and social sciences with the emerging brain sciences around central issues we all share....the construction of a new synthetic field -- a dynamic meta- or intersectional field that is still in the state of becoming. No single map yet exists to chart the terrain of its emergence.

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~ Barbara Maria Stafford, A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.